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Strang is doomed doomed doomed and to-morrow I shall be king!" His voice rose in a wailing shriek. He darted to the door and his cackling laugh rang with the old madness as he pointed into the north where a lurid glow had mounted high into the sky. "The signal fire the bell!" he gurgled chokingly. "They are calling the Mormons to arms but it is too late too late!

They fell to wrangling again more viciously than before. One tapped his gun and the other his pistols. The landlord scolded, the dumb man gurgled. At last their difference ended as I had hoped it would. 'Very well then, we will both go back! the innkeeper cried in a rage. 'And Antoine must see him on. But the blame be on your head. Do you give the lad your pistols.

Some day when he gets so drunk he'll kill one of the grand jury, maybe the rest of them and the coroner can indict him for something." We lay still in the warm water. Sometimes now in the lazy hot August afternoons I can hear the rippling song of the Neosho as it prattled and gurgled on its way.

He gurgled. He giggled. He shrieked. He roared. And he even pounded on the table. "Oh, but this is rich!" he gasped. "My word! But this is rich! It's the very richest thing I ever heard!" His unseemly merriment attracted the attention of nearly everybody around them.

"Let's hope not," Max went on, cheerfully; "because that would be unfair, as we've left all our shooting-irons in camp. Anyhow, it might pay us to put a bold face on the matter. So come along, Bandy-legs." "W-w-who's afraid?" gurgled the other, trying to look and act like his chum, though the effort was not wholly a success.

Allie Vander-what's-your-name Davidson, there's other things low-down, mean things planned for this night that ain't going to come off, either. Understand that, do you? "He understood, I guess. He didn't answer at all. Only gurgled, like he'd swallered something the wrong way. "Then the beautiful tit for tat of the whole business come to me, and I couldn't help rubbing it in a little.

Helena retreated towards a large cave round the bend. There the water gurgled under the bladder-wrack of the large stones; the air was cool and clammy. She pursued her way into the gloom, bending, though there was no need, shivering at the coarse feel of the seaweed beneath her naked feet.

They must surely find a house on the other side of the woodland. Now they listened eagerly for the sound of a stream of running water. They had walked until afternoon before they came to a clearing in the forest. They had dropped down to rest, when Phil heard a longed-for murmur. It tinkled and splashed and gurgled.

Pig had to stop talking for a time, because she gurgled and wheezed and panted in a most alarming fashion. At last, when she had somewhat recovered from her flurry, she called to Grunty. And looking at him severely Mrs. Pig said to him, "Let this be a lesson to you. Never, never stray away from the farmyard again!" "Yes, Mother!" was Grunty's glib reply. Then he sidled away.

Margaret gurgled low laughter in my ear as she caught the drift of the episode. The sea-lawyer looked at the other in amazement ere he answered: "I guess not." After nodding Sundry Buyers over to him to take the turn Murphy straightened his back and walked close to Davis, then said very quietly: "I guess yes." That was all. For a space neither spoke.